Wine bars in Old Town and Lincoln Park

Vintage 338

Lincoln Park wine bar Vintage 338 focuses on European wines.

Lincoln Park wine bar Vintage 338 focuses on European wines.

By RedEye staff

Flight 15511551 N. Wells St. 312-944-1551This combination restaurant and wine bar offers more than 50 wine options by the glass, including several flight options if you just can’t choose. Snack on small plates ranging from mussels to chorizo-stuffed dates to charcuterie. Afraid you’ll miss a big game? Don’t worry. There’s a TV over the bar.D.O.C. Wine Bar2602 N. Clark St. 773-883-5101From the same owners as neighboring Dunlays on Clark, D.O.C. offers dozens of wines by the glass, flight, bottle or half-bottle. Don’t be shy about asking your bartender for a wine recommendation to pair with a butcher’s platter, wooden cutting boards filled with a mix-and match selection of bruschetta, meats and cheeses.

Fion Wine & Spirits426 W. Diversey Parkway. 773-549-5400This casual wine-focused bar is great for beginners, with a few TVs playing sports and plenty of beerand cocktail options for the wine-phobic. The stainless steel contraption at the end of the bar is an Enomatic wine-serving system, keeping 16 bottles of wine airtight and cooled to the perfect temperature.Webster's Wine Bar1480 W. Webster Ave. 773-868-0608Located just east of the Webster Place movie theater, this wine bar is the perfect spot for a post-film drink. Expect more than 40 wines by the glass and upward of 500 reserve bottles from around the globe. Hungry? Snack on flatbread pizzas, seafood dishes, cheese plates, sweets and more.

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